Yeah... I think that jogging class may be a problem. Jogged a little over half a mile (7 Buena Vista city blocks) earlier today and was much, much more tired afterward than I was when I walked close to 5 miles the other day. Actually, walking 5 miles, the only thing that wore me out was climbing the stairs at the end... but jogging, I get just as tired from one or two blocks worth as I do from going up those stairs. But hey, at least this way I'm bound to do better at the end of the semester than I do at the start! Since grades are based on amount of improvement over the semester, and I really suck at it now, I doubt there's much chance of me notting getting major improvement points. Unless I break my leg trying to jog or something, but I don't think I'm fragile, just... not good at running for any length of time.
On a more positive note, the food is still amazing considering that it's coming out of a school cafeteria. They had rigatoni, clam strips, and spicy fried shrimp today. And that's just what I actually ate--they also had onion rings, which I didn't get around to before getting full. But seriously... freakin' clam strips from a SCHOOL CAFETERIA!! I would have never believed it if I hadn't eaten them myself (just seeing them wouldn't be enough, they could be... some kind of illusion or something.) And they were actually good, too! Shrimp were very good also, which makes me wish I would've skipped the salad this time so I could've had more of them.
Actually learned some stuff in Spanish. Turns out there's a whole other form of pronoun I had never heard of before: vosotros. Which is rarely used outside of Spain (most everyone else just uses ustedes for all forms of plural "you"), and sounds like the name of an evil wizard. He's probably related to Quiznos, the evil wizard who makes people fat by magically forcing them to eat too many subs.
Also, nosotros should become nosotras when everyone involved is female (vosotros is the same way.) Somehow I either didn't know that from my high school Spanish classes, or I had forgotten it over the years since then... I thought it was always just nosotros. I haven't forgotten everything, though; the more new Spanish I pick up, the more old bits come floating back. I remembered son and somos before I actually read them in the book, just from seeing the pronouns they go with.
There was a soccer game. I didn't go, of course. I sorta thought about it for a very brief period, but by the time 5:00 rolled around, I was much too busy eating shrimp, clam strips, rigatoni, and salad (and talking) to bother with something that was most likely going to end up pretty bad for me anyway. Food and being around people I like talking to always beat sports (and most likely still would even if I actually liked watching sports.)
Finished The Return of Martin Guerre. Didn't live up to its "really boring" reputation at all; I thought it was pretty interesting to read, actually. I was a little bummed out that they pretty much started off the book by giving away the entire plot in the introduction, but the little details of actually reading it weren't spoiled by that little summary without much detail to it at all, so it worked out pretty well in the end anyway. And we'll be watching the movie version of it tomorrow in class.
While fiddling around in the library after my attempted jog (and short walk), I got a good look at a pretty big chunk of the books in there. There's one big section with lots of Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, and Orson Scott Card stuff on the upper floor (which means I'll probably end up reading the rest of the Narnia and Ender series while I'm here, along with any Tolkein stuff I haven't read yet; I think there was a book of "lost"/unfinished stories that got released sometime not too long ago?) On the bottom floor, I spotted one kind of odd-looking yellow-and-black thick paperback book among the religion-related shelves... and sure enough, it was "Mormonism for Dummies." I had no idea they had "for Dummies" books covering different religions... I had only seen the computer-related ones and a few random others before.
Odd quote of the day: "He's not quite white enough, but..." I am... not entirely sure what I overheard there, I wasn't really paying close attention.
Wasn't actually said today (it was... yesterday, I think?) but still strange/funny enough to mention.
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